McCarry, Barbara, 1939-2022

Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of magazine articles, dedicated issues, and memorial books about the Kennedy family and their intersection with American politics in the 1960s. There is a 3-page letter from Sister Barbara McCarry, OSB to her Benedictine Sisters in the Fall of 1960 outlining JFK's platform to encourage their participation in the upcoming election. Sister Barbara aksi cikkected tge texts of his speeches accepting the Democratic nomination and at his inauguration.

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Early materials in this collection are two family photographs from about 1946 and a 1960 photograph from her dorm room at Mount Saint Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas, featuring a JFK campaign poster. The collection includes biographical information as well as material related to her vocation as an educator and her entusiasm for literacy. Sister Barbara saved some of her correpondence with community members, friends, and public figures.

Scope and Contents From the Class: This class contains periodicals with content from across all areas of the archives. We store them together due to their similar material, size, and fragility. The content is related to individual Benedictine Sisters, schools staffed by Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and to the Catholic culture of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Pueblo. The archives considers the context of the articles and/or the carrier of the content to be of intrinsic value so the entire page or newspaper...